Alright, so I don't care that almost nobody probably saw it, but I said I'd do it on Monday, and with a bit of caffeine and a bit of background music and a bit of putting off homework, this is Zjoot, coming at you with the official announcement for

QUICKWRITE 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO!

(If you don’t want to read this whole thing, you’re kinda lame, but the important bits are in bold.)

Yes everybody, that’s right, we’re doing another one. And I’m excited. Because this time I get to run the thing! (with the help of my lovely assistant the BullToad of course)

What exactly are you talking about so enthusiastically?

For anyone who doesn’t know what the hell I’m talking about so enthusiastically, let me lay it down for y’all. The Quickwrite is something I started with some of my friends (of which the famous BullToad was one) in the spring of 2011. The goal was to help me increase my writing productivity. To that end, I invited my friends to join me in a writing contest. The premise was simple; Wahoigleton picked a prompt and we had 24 hours from the time he posted it to write a story. He picked his favorite, that person won. Rinse, lather, repeat. The name “Quickwrite” was derived from the super short deadlines (which eventually grew to be three days) and the name (Quicktopic) of the site we used to communicate. Eventually, this died out, but the BullToad decided to bring it back in the form of a large single elimination tournament, which is the form this one takes.

TL;DR-The Quickwrite is a single elimination writing tournament and it’s a lot of fun! I’ll pair you up, give you a prompt, and you’ll have three days to write a short story. Whoever writes the best story moves on to the next round! Winner gets all the glory and prizes!

Wait, there are prizes? What prizes?

Yes, there are prizes. Just by participating, you get the sense of accomplishment that comes from writing a short story, some hopefully useful feedback to improve your prose, the sheer joy of competition, the pleasure of my company, and the most important prize of all, the gift of fun!

As far as actual physical prizes, well, I’ll have to talk to my partner in crime about that. Maybe we’ll steal you something. But seriously, Toad’s the one with a job, so the prizes are something that I’ll have to discuss with him. He offered some pretty generous rewards for the first one.

Wow, this sounds like the coolest thing to happen, ever. How do I join? When does it start? Etc, etc…

You’re right hypothetical audience, this is the coolest thing to happen, but don’t get ahead of yourself. This post is just to let people know about the competition and to gauge interest. The actual start date is yet to be determined. It’s actually one of the things I’d like your input on. There are actually a few things I’d like your input on. Here are said things. They’re in bold because they’re important.

Keeping in mind that this will probably take a few months (the first one started in August and is just finishing up now) when is a good time to start for you?

I was thinking of inviting people from Tumblr and Giant in the Playground to join this. Comments? Questions? Screams of rage? (I’ll probably go ahead with this unless there’s major objection)

I also want to seed the bracket. Meaning I’ll be ranking you before the contest begins to make things a little fairer. Again, any thoughts?